Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Overly complicated never looked so simple




Tonight I finally got the rear brake on the BSA put together. What your looking at is a mechanical sprotor. I designed the rear caliper around a simple mechanical brake you find on industrial machines. The way it will work is the left rear set control will actuate it via a wedge which pushes up between the two adjustable ball bearings, pushing the arms open and the brake pads together. The brake arms are aluminum and most everything else is stainless. I still need to rivet the brake shoe material to the backing plates.

3 comments:

  1. chris that is amazing...i cant wait to see this thing finished....

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  2. nice mechanicals. Do you have a photo of how the foot pedal wedges the levers open?

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